Sustainable Growth in the Agro-Food Cooperatives of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain)

Felipe Hernández-Perlines, Antonio Ariza-Montes and Luis Araya-Castillo
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Felipe Hernández-Perlines: Department of Business Administration, University of Castilla-La Mancha, 45071 Toledo, Spain
Antonio Ariza-Montes: Department of Management, Universidad Loyola Andalucía, 14004 Córdoba, Spain
Luis Araya-Castillo: Facultad de Economía y Negocios, Universidad Andrés Bello, Santiago de Chile 7591538, Chile

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 12, 1-19

Abstract: The present study aims at analysing the sustainable growth in the agro-food cooperatives of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain). To this end, the study examines the impact of the corporate social responsibility (hereinafter CSR) on the performance of the agro-food cooperatives. CSR is analysed based on the three dimensions suggested by the triple bottom line approach: Economic dimension, social dimension, and environmental dimension. Results are analysed using a partial least squares regression (PLS-SEM). The main contributions are as follows: (1) The measurement of the CSR through the triple bottom line approach has proven to be appropriate for the agro-food cooperatives of Castilla-la Mancha, as it presents adequate values of reliability and validity; (2) these dimensions make up the CSR, although the environmental dimension is the most relevant one for the agro-food cooperatives of Castilla-La Mancha; and (3) CSR positively and significantly affects the performance of agro-food cooperatives, as it explains 39.2% of their variance, thus confirming a sustainable growth model for the agro-food cooperatives of Castilla-La Mancha.

Keywords: corporate social responsibility; economic dimension; social dimension; environmental dimension; performance; sustainable growth; agro-food cooperatives; PLS (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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